OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Arid Land is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Variations of soil moisture and its influencing factors in arid and semi-arid areas, China	77
Formation and ecological response of sand patches in the protection system of Shapotou section of the Baotou-Lanzhou railway, China	59
Nutrient resorption and its influencing factors of typical desert plants in different habitats on the northern margin of the Tarim Basin, China	41
Benefits and ecological restoration implications of hanging grass fences in Mongolian desert steppe	41
Soil quality assessment for desertification based on multi-indicators with the best-worst method in a semi-arid ecosystem	39
Erratum to: Soil evolution along an alluvial-loess transect in the Herat Plain, western Afghanistan	33
Leaf stoichiometry of Leontopodium lentopodioides at high altitudes on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	31
Wind dynamic environment and wind-sand erosion and deposition processes on different surfaces along the Dunhuang–Golmud railway, China	31
Hydrochemistry and environmental implications in the western alpine region of China	28
Geochemical signatures and human health risk evaluation of rare earth elements in soils and plants of the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	26
Trade-off and synergy effects, driving factors, and spatial optimization of ecosystem services in the Wuding River Basin of China: A study based on the Bayesian Belief Network approach	26
Reasonable grazing may balance the conflict between grassland utilization and soil conservation in the semi-arid hilly areas, China	25
Effects of desert plant communities on soil enzyme activities and soil organic carbon in the proluvial fan in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountain in Ningxia, China	24
Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of vegetation net primary productivity in the Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration, China from 2001 to 2020	23
Reclamation during oasification is conducive to the accumulation of the soil organic carbon pool in arid land	23
Meteorological drought in semi-arid regions: A case study of Iran	23
Aeolian activity in the southern Gurbantunggut Desert of China during the last 900 years	23
Predicting potential invasion risks of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit in the arid area of Saudi Arabia	22
Spatiotemporal variation in vegetation net primary productivity and its relationship with meteorological factors in the Tarim River Basin of China from 2001 to 2020 based on the Google Earth Engine	20
Impact of land use/land cover types on surface humidity in northern China in the early 21st century	20